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French Beans

Recipes : French Beans
There is the ideal way to cook French bean making sure that they keep their green and crunchy qualities: Cooking Fren...
French Fries

Recipes : French Fries
French fries or "pomme Pont-Neuf" are probably the most popular french recipe. But, they are not always cooked properly....
Anglaise sauce or French Custard

Recipes : Anglaise sauce or French Custard
This custard recipe is the base of several recipes,from desserts accompaniments sauces to ice-cream mixes for chocolate ...
Tarte Tatin

Recipes : Tarte Tatin
This recipe, created by the Tatin sisters, at the beginning of the 20th century in their restaurant of La Motte Beuvron ...
Beurre Blanc

Recipes : Beurre Blanc
It is believed that the creation of the beurre blanc sauce came from a mistake made by the excellent cook of the "Marqui...
String/French bean salad

Recipes : String/French bean salad
This is a recipe adequate for persons suffering from type 2-diabetes String/French bean salad for 4 to 6 persons : 5...
Veal chops Pojarski

Recipes : Veal chops Pojarski
There is a cult recipe from the French gastronomy : veal chops Pojarski.This recipe comes in direct line from Russian cu...
Veal Chops

Recipes : Veal Chops "Normande"
This old traditional French recipe has become out of fashion in French restaurant or at family dinner. I do not understa...
Wafers

Recipes : Wafers
There are many other wafer recipes, but this one is the simplest around! Wafers for 4 to 6 people : 250g strong flou...
Roast Guinea Fowl Alsacian Style

Recipes : Roast Guinea Fowl Alsacian Style
Roast guinea fowl for 8 people 2 guinea fowl, oven ready and seasoned For the sauerkraut: 2 kg of raw sauerkraut 1 f...
Granita

Recipes : Granita
Very simple to make and inexpensive, they do not require an ice-cream maker and they are kept in the freezer compartment...
Cat's Mousse

Recipes : Cat's Mousse
This classic recipe created by the master chef Fernand Point has been long forgotten. Recipe for 6 people: 300g of...
Tapenade

Recipes : Tapenade
Ingredients for a bowl of 'tapenade' : 250 grams of stoned (pitted) black olives (from Nyons if you can find them - N...
Armagnac

French specialties : Armagnac
The story of Armagnac known as the most ancient eaux-de-vie in France,began at the beginning of the 15th Century in Gasc...
Currant Jam

French specialties : Currant Jam
Bar-le-Duc is the town of origin of a rare and ignored Lorraine speciality, the currant Jam épépinée with the goose feat...
Maghreb cooking

News : Maghreb cooking
After having paid a visit to our Canadian friends, we continue our gastronomic trips outside of France a little more sou...
The Arpajon bean fair

News : The Arpajon bean fair
My arrival into this fair sent me back in the years when I participated to those contests. The age coming, I was invited...
Miss Nellie and Mr Auguste

News : Miss Nellie and Mr Auguste
This is a short tribute to Auguste Escoffier, the so famous French cook who was active mainly at the turn of the XIXth c...
The Lobster à l'américaine Story

News : The Lobster à l'américaine Story
We are now nearly fully sure of the validity of the "à l'américaine" name of this recipe, to the contrary of the "à l'ar...
A nice week-end in Lyon

News : A nice week-end in Lyon
As we do from time to time during the year, direction Lyon to pay a visit to some beloved friends. Her,'Speedy' Brigitt...
Asparagus

News : Asparagus
Asparagus is a latin word. Asparagus had been first appreciated by the ancient Egyptians, Greeks and Romans. They then ...
The 'Madeleine' story

News : The 'Madeleine' story
Stanislas, king of Poland used to have, as a second home, the castle of Commercy, in a small town of the Lorraine region...
Queen Tomato's paradise

News : Queen Tomato's paradise
Most people believe that tomato is a vegetable but it is actually a fruit of an herbal american plant (solanum genus) ; ...
Towards the discovery of  the Yoghurts

News : Towards the discovery of the Yoghurts
It happened in very ancient times, at the fringes of the Balkanic peninsula and of Turkey that one started to find the f...
mixed flavoured butters

News : mixed flavoured butters
The basic principle is the same in all cases : you must soften the butter and incorporate into it one or several flavour...
2009 End of the Year Festive Menu

News : 2009 End of the Year Festive Menu
It has, now, become an annual berth, our chef Patrick Asfaux offers you his new festive menu for the Holiday season. Thi...
Festive menus

News : Festive menus
The end of the year celebrations/parties are, for number of people, an opportunity to share with relatives and/or with f...
the omelette

News : the omelette
In the Journal of Jean Heroard (1551-1628), doctor of the young future king Louis XIII, we could read : "often, in the a...
Recipes for persons suffering from type 2 -diabetes

News : Recipes for persons suffering from type 2 -diabetes
Yes, we can prepare and eat good food and suffer somewhat from type 2-diabetes (this is my personal case). I react by av...
Sauerkraut  ('choucroute' in French language)

News : Sauerkraut ('choucroute' in French language)
The French word 'choucroute' (for 'sauerkraut') derives from the Alsacian dialect 'sûrkrût' itself from the German 'saue...
A few days in Burgundy

News : A few days in Burgundy
As usual during this calamitous August, we leave Paris under the rain to Val de Mercy. I know pretty well this region be...
Kir

News : Kir
Mr Félix Kir (born in 1876 in Côte d'Or, in the heart of Burgundy) was a canon, ordained as a catholic priest in 1901. ...
Opening oysters

News : Opening oysters
Traditional activity during the Christmas and New Year celebrations, the opening of oysters remains a dangerous technica...
A so nice journey

News : A so nice journey
It is true that my children and friends have had a real great idea in offring me, for my birthday anniversary, a fixed r...
Prepare you home-made 'foie gras'

News : Prepare you home-made 'foie gras'
If you have visited our site for some time, I bet you have, one day, desired to prepare your home-made 'foie gras'. May...


answer to Pravesh
Hello Go to the "recipes" title on top left of this page and you will find French recipes in English. Of course you can...

answer to charlie
Hello Charlie Where are you from ?(it is not so common that non French persons love andouillette : even many French do ...

Chef Giovanni
You want be French cook, but you are not French. I have a chance my mothet was French ans my father was Italian. My Fren...

fionaa
Fionna This site is full of French recipes : just click onto " RECIPES " on top lef of this page...

show cheese
please do an article on french cheese. not just recipes as they are not very helpful in understanding french cheese and ...








2009 End of the Year Festive Menu2009 End of the Year Festive Menu
It has, now, become an annual berth, our chef Patr More...


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Mr Auguste
This is a short tribute to Auguste Escoffier, the so famous French cook . Mr Auguste
Lobster à l'américaine Story
We are now nearly fully sure of the validity of the "à l'américaine" name of this recipe, to the contrary of the "à l'armoricaine" one.read more